Good bye cruel world
I spent quite a lot of time reading and learning some holy-shit for which I've started another blog. Writing here after quite a long time, because I sat down right now to recollect how much I got pissed in the last 15 months. I thought of gathering all of it, rolling it up together and throwing it down at this place once and for all.
Goodbye, cruel world
I'm leaving you today
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!
Thats how I left! Starting from the very first day, I couldn't feel any intimate connection with anything that existed. Moving around places never stopped being a head-ache. I survived with food but nowhere found a convenient source of eating good parathas for which the whole of NCR region rocks. I loved the dhaba food on the state-highway, but every hog meant an upset for next few days. Alcohol was fun until a lot of fake beer was consumed. House brokers are so skilled that even if more than half the houses are vacant, the house rents are maintained at an optimal maximum simply by fooling the crowd. My landlord ripped me royally and took an awesome pride in proving that his money sucking skills are much better than any skill I might have learnt at IIT/IIM. It took a little time to understand the kind of people involved in the whole black-and-white real estate business there. Weather extremes were a joke! On weekends, I loved spending empty time or almost comtemplating to go back to office for work. Had a few very good flatmates, but for them weekends meant going home and escaping from the barren land. Among the people I saw, the most common hobbies were booze, buying apartments, striking political deals or any activity that maximizes some kind of show-off culture on an aggregate. I firmly believe that malls aren't the only places to find a proof of existence of society, but all of it seemed to happen in malls only! If a bunch of political fat cats want to boom a barren land adjoining the national capital, please don't call it a city where normal societal framework close to Indian culture can exist. It can be a new face to the upcoming boom in India which can provide an enormous rise to GDP and all macro-economic variables and among different groups in the society... I feel, that face is ugly!
Well, its not actually that bad :P But the land of Gurgaon is not a friendly place for sure to which almost all my friends can attest. I lived for 15 months and actually learnt quite a lot. I made numerous attempts to find something worthwhile - studying math, gymming, dance, aerobics, morning biking, skating, ... The learning was - NOTHING CAN SUBSTITUTE THE NATURAL WAY OF LIFE. For some Gurgaon can be a perfect place and at the same time no place in the world will be free from all the problems. I want some kick-ass people around me :). I want to engage my mind with things that I can naturally like. I will be intimate with things that go back to my roots. People with whom you can spend hours together are much dearer than any kind of ego and greed satisfaction that could fascinate the mind. Food or alcohol can never become any kind of means to spend time. Even if its not always good to live in comfortable atmosphere, persistently living in a psychologically 'out of synch' environment is a sure cause of mental screw-up! The most important one is - Never fcuking get bored in life! Getting bored is a horrible crime!
I think its time to improve! The recessionary hit gave pretty painful and unknown problems to solve but like the stock indices, positive expectations or uptrend sets in a wave of happiness and life becomes full as before. The times of boom might never come back but downturns have their teachings all along the way. It seems like a new life altogether now while spending an amazing time back at home. Moving to Mumbai in the next weekend - no high hopes, but just an open mind to achieve the things in life there. Thats where it all started off - the 4 years in the jungles of IIT. Its the City of Dreams :)
time.. midnight
mood.. max peaceful
song.. Bob Marley playlist is looping
food.. pav bhaji for dinner
work.. go back to sleep now :)
Goodbye, cruel world
I'm leaving you today
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!
Thats how I left! Starting from the very first day, I couldn't feel any intimate connection with anything that existed. Moving around places never stopped being a head-ache. I survived with food but nowhere found a convenient source of eating good parathas for which the whole of NCR region rocks. I loved the dhaba food on the state-highway, but every hog meant an upset for next few days. Alcohol was fun until a lot of fake beer was consumed. House brokers are so skilled that even if more than half the houses are vacant, the house rents are maintained at an optimal maximum simply by fooling the crowd. My landlord ripped me royally and took an awesome pride in proving that his money sucking skills are much better than any skill I might have learnt at IIT/IIM. It took a little time to understand the kind of people involved in the whole black-and-white real estate business there. Weather extremes were a joke! On weekends, I loved spending empty time or almost comtemplating to go back to office for work. Had a few very good flatmates, but for them weekends meant going home and escaping from the barren land. Among the people I saw, the most common hobbies were booze, buying apartments, striking political deals or any activity that maximizes some kind of show-off culture on an aggregate. I firmly believe that malls aren't the only places to find a proof of existence of society, but all of it seemed to happen in malls only! If a bunch of political fat cats want to boom a barren land adjoining the national capital, please don't call it a city where normal societal framework close to Indian culture can exist. It can be a new face to the upcoming boom in India which can provide an enormous rise to GDP and all macro-economic variables and among different groups in the society... I feel, that face is ugly!
Well, its not actually that bad :P But the land of Gurgaon is not a friendly place for sure to which almost all my friends can attest. I lived for 15 months and actually learnt quite a lot. I made numerous attempts to find something worthwhile - studying math, gymming, dance, aerobics, morning biking, skating, ... The learning was - NOTHING CAN SUBSTITUTE THE NATURAL WAY OF LIFE. For some Gurgaon can be a perfect place and at the same time no place in the world will be free from all the problems. I want some kick-ass people around me :). I want to engage my mind with things that I can naturally like. I will be intimate with things that go back to my roots. People with whom you can spend hours together are much dearer than any kind of ego and greed satisfaction that could fascinate the mind. Food or alcohol can never become any kind of means to spend time. Even if its not always good to live in comfortable atmosphere, persistently living in a psychologically 'out of synch' environment is a sure cause of mental screw-up! The most important one is - Never fcuking get bored in life! Getting bored is a horrible crime!
I think its time to improve! The recessionary hit gave pretty painful and unknown problems to solve but like the stock indices, positive expectations or uptrend sets in a wave of happiness and life becomes full as before. The times of boom might never come back but downturns have their teachings all along the way. It seems like a new life altogether now while spending an amazing time back at home. Moving to Mumbai in the next weekend - no high hopes, but just an open mind to achieve the things in life there. Thats where it all started off - the 4 years in the jungles of IIT. Its the City of Dreams :)
time.. midnight
mood.. max peaceful
song.. Bob Marley playlist is looping
food.. pav bhaji for dinner
work.. go back to sleep now :)
posted by Pradeep Kanade @ 2:19 AM
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